Maroon 5歌手简介:
MAROON 5 最新专辑Songs About Jane 珍 情歌
*Neo-Soul新灵魂乐界第一摇滚乐团，人气单曲「列爱This Love」勇夺美国Billboard点播榜冠军/专辑榜第七名/单曲榜第五名、英国金榜专辑榜第四名/单曲榜第三名
maroon ﹝ma' run﹞ adj. 褐红色的
maroon 融合了
红色的狂野魅力、神秘热情、奔放烈爱再掺入摇滚力道、灵魂旋律及放克节奏
这样的红流泻着新灵魂乐性感风情的放克摇滚这样的红
在流行歌坛注入了一股新的颜色
2003年，一首充满张力的摇滚劲曲”Harder to Breathe”悄悄地进占了全球各地的电台，这首挟带着戏剧性内容和唱腔而让人一听就上瘾的歌曲，为来自洛杉矶的这支五人团体Maroon 5打开了进军世界的大门。
Maroon 5的成功决非一夕得来的侥幸，这两年来他们巡回全美在超过两百场的演唱会中表演，并为许多知名艺人暖场，这些现场演出让Maroon 5一点一滴地累积起人气，原本在2002年就已发行的”Harder To Breathe”因此开始口耳相传地慢慢走红，到了2003年夏天更成为歌迷的最爱之一，打入全美单曲榜第18名，而收录”Harder To Breathe”的专辑《Songs About Jane》也连带获得全美专辑榜第七名的佳绩。2004年由同一张专辑所选出的单曲”This Love”不但延续了”Harder To Breathe”的气势，还更上一层楼地获得全美单曲榜第五名，而Maroon 5在欧洲以及亚洲各国也都创下杰出的成绩，俨然已成为全球最受欢迎的团体之一。
这个灰姑娘般的故事早在1995年就已经开始萌芽，当时主唱/吉他手Adam Levine、键盘乐器手Jesse Carmichael以及贝斯手Mickey Madden是同一所高中的同学，Levine再找来他的儿时好友－鼓手Ryan Dusick，组成了Kara's Flowers这支摇滚团体，并且发行了一张专辑
「The Fourth World」，专辑虽然叫好但不叫座，因此当时这几位只有17岁的大男孩决定暂时放下在乐坛发展的计划，先各自回校园完成大学学业再说。团员们在这段休息期间并没有忘记创作，主唱Levine更在这段期间开始接触原本不熟悉的灵魂、放克与R&B音乐，因此他在创作中除了原本的摇滚与民谣元素之外，注入了更多不同的风格，这样的风格也成为Maroon 5现在曲风的雏形。后来团员们的学业告一段落后准备要重新出发，在加入了新团员吉他手James Valentine之后，Maroon 5正式成军。
为Maroon 5打出一片天下的首张专辑「Songs About Jane」是团员与超级制作人Matt Wallace的心血结晶，专辑中兼容并蓄着摇滚力道、灵魂旋律以及放克律动，Levine以表情丰富的声音在一首首描绘他前女友的歌曲中，深刻传达出他的心境转变过程。这张目前销售成绩已达白金唱片纪录的专辑，让喜欢流行、摇滚、R&B、灵魂…等各式曲风不同畛域的歌迷听了都会大呼过瘾。
A mix of polished pop/rock and neo-soul sex appeal made Maroon 5 one of the most popular bands of the 2000s, with such radio-ready songs as "This Love," "She Will Be Loved," and "Makes Me Wonder" all topping the charts worldwide . Previously, bandmates Adam Levine (vocals/guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards), Mickey Madden (bass), and Ryan Dusick (drums) had spent the latter half of the '90s playing in the modern rock outfit Kara's Flowers, releasing their debut album for Reprise Records while still attending high school. The record tanked, however, and Kara's Flowers found themselves dropped from the Reprise roster. After briefly attending college, the bandmates regrouped as Maroon 5, added former Square guitarist James Valentine to the lineup, and embraced a more R&B-influenced sound. Several years later, the quintet had officially risen to the forefront of popular music with the multi-platinum releases of Songs About Jane and It Won't Be Soon Before Long.
Songs About Jane propelled the band into the mainstream, but the album was not an immediate hit. Octone Records had signed the newly christened Maroon 5 in 2001, and the debut album Jane received a lukewarm response upon its in June 2002. "Harder to Breathe" became a radio staple 17 months later and was soon followed by the omnipresent "This Love," whose steamy video (featuring frontman Levine and a barely clothed girlfriend) effectively wooed the TV-watching crowds at MTV. Songs About Jane finally entered the Billboard Top Ten in August 2004, more than two years after the album's release, and subsequent singles like "She Will Be Loved" and "Sunday Morning" helped the album move over 2.7 million copies by year's end.
Maroon 5 toured exhaustively in support of Jane's slow-developing success, issuing two stopgap recordings -- 2004's 1.22.03.Acoustic and 2005's Live Friday the 13th -- while canvassing the world alongside the Rolling Stones and John Mayer. Their schedule was especially trying on percussionist Dusick, who sustained wrist and shoulder injuries and was often unable to play. By fall 2006, Dusick had been officially replaced by Matt Flynn (the former drummer for Gavin DeGraw), and the revised band released its sophomore effort in May 2007. It Won't Be Soon Before Long proved to be less popular than its predecessor (which had sold more than four million copies in the U.S. alone), but it still enjoyed double-platinum certification while spinning off the chart-topping single "Makes Me Wonder." Maroon 5 had cemented their status as pop/rock heavyweights, and they now had the powerful connections to prove it. Released in late 2008, Call and Response: The Remix Album reinterpreted the band's catalog with remixes by such influential figures as Mary J. Blige, Mark Ronson, and Pharrell Williams